chose between anthropic and deepmind mle offers this cycle - numbers + how i decided

had the good problem of picking between anthropic and gdm (l5). posting both packages and my reasoning bc the structures are wildly different and headline tc hides it. anthropic: - base: 320k (they publish bands in listings, mine was inside the posted range, zero surprises) - equity: private rsu style grant, 4 yr vest w/ 1 yr cliff, tender/secondary liquidity…